Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching

Herausgeber: Potrac, Paul; Denison, Jim; Gilbert, Wade

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching is the first book to survey the full depth and breadth of contemporary coaching studies, mapping the existing disciplinary territory and opening up important new areas of research. Bringing together many of the world's leading coaching scholars and practitioners working across the full range of psychological, social and pedagogical perspectives, the book helps to develop an understanding of sports coaching that reflects its complex, dynamic and messy reality. This book makes an important contribution to the professionalization of coaching and the development of coaching theory. It is important reading for all students, researchers and policy makers with an interest in this young and flourishing area.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 510
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1284g
• ISBN-13: 9780415782227
• ISBN-10: 0415782228
• Artikelnr.: 31386170

Autorenporträt

Paul Potrac is Professor of Sports Coaching at Edge Hill University. His research interests focus on exploring the social complexity of sports coaching, with a particular emphasis on the political and emotional nature of coaching practice. Wade Gilbert is a Professor and Sport Psychology Coordinator in the Department of Kinesiology at Fresno State University, USA. He is an active researcher and consultant in the areas of coach education, coaching effectiveness and athlete talent development. Jim Denison is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta, Canada and Director of the Canadian Athletics Coaching Centre. A sport sociologist and coach educator, his research examines the social construction and historical formation of coaching 'knowledges' and coaches' practices.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Historical and Conceptual Overview of Sports Coaching
1. Historical Perspectives on Coaching 2. Coaching with Foucault: An
examination of applied sports ethics 3. Coaching and Professionalization 4.
Ready, Set, Action: Representations of coaching through film 5. Issues of
Exclusion and Discrimination in the Coaching Profession 6. Coaching
Efficacy Beliefs 7. Coaching Competency and Exploratory Structural Equation
Modelling 8. The Application of Video-Based Performance Analysis: The coach
supporting athlete learning 9. Observing Coach-Athlete Interactions in Real
Time: The state space grid method 10. Recommendations on the Methods Used
to Investigate Coaches' Decision Making 11. A Critical Realist Approach to
Theorising Coaching Practice Part 2: Perspectives on Sports Coaching In
Action 12. Defining Coaching Effectiveness: focus on coaches' knowledge 13.
Coaches and Talent Identification 14. Holistic Sports Coaching: A critical
essay 15. Quality Coaching Behaviours 16. Coaching Special Populations 17.
Body Politics: Coaching and technology 18. Humour and Sports Coaching: A
laughing matter? 19. Towards an Emotional Understanding of Coaching: A
suggested research agenda 20. Expectancy Effects in Sports Coaching 21.
Coaching Life Skills 22. Ambiguity, Noticing, and Orchestration: Further
thoughts on managing the complex coaching context 23. Athlete Learning and
Development: Implications for coaching practice 24. Coach: The open
system's manager 25. Exploring Trust and Distrust in Coaching: A suggested
research agenda 26. Empathic Understanding and Accuracy in the
Coach-Athlete Relationship 27. Dangerous Liaisons: Harassment and abuse in
coaching 28. Team Cohesion in Sport: Critical overview and implications for
team building Part 3: Influences on Becoming a Sports Coach 29. Coach
Education and Learning: Developing the field 30. Looking at Coach
Development from the Coach-Learner's Perspective: Considerations for coach
development administrators 31. Effective Coaching as a Modernist Formation:
A Foucauldian critique 32. What a Foucauldian Approach Might Do for the
Loss of the Female Coach 33. Women in Coaching: The work-life interface 34.
Coach Burnout 35. Coaching Expertise and the Quantitative Examination of
Developmental Experiences 36. Psychosocial Training Interventions to
Prepare Youth Sport Coaches 37. Developing High Performance Coaching Craft
through Work and Study 38. Mentoring for Sport Coaches 39. Innovative
Approaches in Coach Education Pedagogy